DV Cleared Contracts

Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for DV Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 64 217
Rank change year-on-year +33 +153 -50
Contract jobs citing DV Cleared 2,409 1,945 1,178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 5.66% 3.42% 1.35%
As % of the Qualifications category 18.79% 12.57% 6.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,742 1,432 870
10th Percentile £417 £413 £415
25th Percentile £513 £510 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +12.20%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £675
90th Percentile £776 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £600 £570
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 89 13
10th Percentile £49.45 £54.00 £47.92
25th Percentile £56.65 £61.50 £63.30
Median hourly rate £70.39 £69.50 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% +0.65% +38.10%
75th Percentile £85.00 £78.00 £76.00
90th Percentile £87.53 £88.00 £76.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.39 £74.90 £69.05
% change year-on-year -6.02% +8.46% +38.10%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

DV Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,818 15,477 18,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.10% 27.18% 21.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,971 10,343 12,521
10th Percentile £308 £330 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.62%
75th Percentile £646 £650 £630
90th Percentile £738 £743 £702
UK excluding London median daily rate £533 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.52% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,057 768 763
10th Percentile £13.69 £15.24 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.72 £21.00 £19.82
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.99 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year -27.26% +25.12% +20.41%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £79.19 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.33 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -19.35% +42.86% +6.06%

DV Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DV Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DV Cleared in the UK

DV Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared.

Daily rate trend for DV Cleared in the UK

DV Cleared
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DV Cleared over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DV Cleared in the UK

DV Cleared
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DV Cleared.

Hourly rate trend for DV Cleared in the UK

DV Cleared
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DV Cleared over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DV Cleared in the UK

DV Cleared
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DV Cleared within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +35 2,308 £600 - 411
UK excluding London +17 1,888 £600 - 346
South East +17 863 £605 +6.14% 141
South West +2 803 £568 -9.20% 122
Work from Home +62 448 £603 +0.42% 123
London +93 439 £650 +8.33% 85
Midlands +4 87 £550 -8.33% 25
East of England -15 70 £550 -8.33% 26
North of England +30 57 £600 -1.44% 24
West Midlands +17 54 £550 -12.52% 19
Scotland +51 40 £700 +33.33% 5
East Midlands -9 33 £563 -4.81% 6
Yorkshire +30 30 £650 +47.73%
North West -1 22 £550 -12.00% 24
Northern Ireland - 9 £575 - 8
North East +17 5 £600 +15.38%
Wales +12 2 - - 1

DV Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 70 (2.91%) SharePoint
2 51 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 49 (2.03%) Confluence
4 35 (1.45%) SharePoint Server
5 12 (0.50%) Apache
6 9 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
7 7 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2010
8 4 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.17%) CMS
9 3 (0.12%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.083%) Exchange Server 2000
10 2 (0.083%) Exchange Server 2003
10 2 (0.083%) Exchange Server 2007
10 2 (0.083%) IIS
10 2 (0.083%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.083%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.083%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.042%) nginx
11 1 (0.042%) SAS
Applications
1 79 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
2 46 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (1.62%) Microsoft Project
4 32 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
5 18 (0.75%) AutoCAD
6 16 (0.66%) MS Visio
7 14 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 5 (0.21%) Siemens NX
8 5 (0.21%) Simulink
9 1 (0.042%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.042%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.042%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.042%) InVision
9 1 (0.042%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.042%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 25 (1.04%) Primavera
2 24 (1.00%) SAP QM
3 9 (0.37%) SAP EWM
4 8 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.33%) Teamcenter
5 7 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.042%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.042%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.042%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.042%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.042%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 273 (11.33%) Azure
2 183 (7.60%) AWS
3 50 (2.08%) PaaS
4 49 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
5 45 (1.87%) SaaS
6 43 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (1.41%) Azure Stack
7 34 (1.41%) IaaS
8 33 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
9 32 (1.33%) Entra ID
10 21 (0.87%) Power Platform
11 20 (0.83%) GCP
12 19 (0.79%) Azure Monitor
13 17 (0.71%) Azure Storage
13 17 (0.71%) OpenShift
14 16 (0.66%) OCI
15 12 (0.50%) Azure Sentinel
16 11 (0.46%) Serverless
17 10 (0.42%) AWS Lambda
17 10 (0.42%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 234 (9.71%) Firewall
2 93 (3.86%) Network Security
3 86 (3.57%) WAN
4 85 (3.53%) DNS
5 81 (3.36%) LAN
6 64 (2.66%) DHCP
7 61 (2.53%) BGP
8 47 (1.95%) SSL
9 45 (1.87%) SAN
10 43 (1.78%) Intrusion Detection
10 43 (1.78%) TCP/IP
11 37 (1.54%) VoIP
12 28 (1.16%) VSAN
13 27 (1.12%) PBX
14 25 (1.04%) Cisco ISE
15 23 (0.95%) OSPF
16 19 (0.79%) VPN
17 18 (0.75%) DMVPN
17 18 (0.75%) EIGRP
18 15 (0.62%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (2.57%) SQL Server
2 49 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
3 39 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (1.29%) Big Data
5 30 (1.25%) Relational Database
6 23 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (0.62%) Data Lake
8 12 (0.50%) Power BI
9 9 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.33%) NoSQL
11 7 (0.29%) Metadata
11 7 (0.29%) Metadata Repository
12 6 (0.25%) InfluxDB
12 6 (0.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 5 (0.21%) MySQL
13 5 (0.21%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (0.17%) Amazon Athena
14 4 (0.17%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 81 (3.36%) JIRA
2 64 (2.66%) Jenkins
3 44 (1.83%) Git
4 35 (1.45%) GitLab
5 21 (0.87%) TestRail
6 19 (0.79%) JUnit
6 19 (0.79%) Rational DOORS
7 10 (0.42%) Selenium
8 9 (0.37%) Artifactory
8 9 (0.37%) Robot Framework
8 9 (0.37%) SonarQube
8 9 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 8 (0.33%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.29%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.29%) Maven
11 4 (0.17%) Checkstyle
12 3 (0.12%) MSI
12 3 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.083%) Gradle
13 2 (0.083%) JIRA Agile
General
1 421 (17.48%) Public Sector
2 412 (17.10%) Social Skills
3 184 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (5.44%) Finance
5 99 (4.11%) Telecoms
6 72 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
7 65 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
8 63 (2.62%) Military
9 52 (2.16%) Manufacturing
10 44 (1.83%) Electronics
11 40 (1.66%) Marketing
12 23 (0.95%) Aerospace
13 16 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (0.54%) Aviation
14 13 (0.54%) Police
15 10 (0.42%) Local Government
16 9 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 8 (0.33%) Law
18 7 (0.29%) Digital Economy
18 7 (0.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 532 (22.08%) Architect
2 245 (10.17%) Analyst
3 139 (5.77%) Solutions Architect
4 130 (5.40%) Consultant
5 127 (5.27%) Senior
6 120 (4.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 107 (4.44%) Lead
8 88 (3.65%) Administrator
8 88 (3.65%) Network Engineer
9 82 (3.40%) Project Manager
10 79 (3.28%) Network Architect
11 73 (3.03%) Security Architect
11 73 (3.03%) Systems Administrator
12 72 (2.99%) Developer
13 71 (2.95%) DevOps Engineer
14 65 (2.70%) SOC Analyst
15 59 (2.45%) Infrastructure Architect
16 53 (2.20%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
17 50 (2.08%) Security Engineer
18 49 (2.03%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (2.08%) Spring
2 47 (1.95%) Spring Boot
3 44 (1.83%) REST
4 43 (1.78%) React
5 29 (1.20%) Web Services
6 26 (1.08%) Apache NiFi
7 25 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
8 20 (0.83%) ARM Templates
9 18 (0.75%) .NET
9 18 (0.75%) Hibernate
9 18 (0.75%) JPA
10 12 (0.50%) Itk
11 9 (0.37%) AngularJS
11 9 (0.37%) PySpark
12 8 (0.33%) .NET Core
12 8 (0.33%) Node.js
12 8 (0.33%) YAML
13 6 (0.25%) LDAP
13 6 (0.25%) RESTful
13 6 (0.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 188 (7.80%) PKI
2 111 (4.61%) Data Centre
3 107 (4.44%) Cyber Threat
4 102 (4.23%) Cyber Defence
5 94 (3.90%) Management Information System
6 65 (2.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 64 (2.66%) Security Operations Centre
8 55 (2.28%) Private Cloud
9 40 (1.66%) CSOC
10 33 (1.37%) Driving Licence
11 32 (1.33%) Product Ownership
12 28 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
12 28 (1.16%) Video Conferencing
13 23 (0.95%) Replication
14 22 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
15 20 (0.83%) Client/Server
16 19 (0.79%) Distributed Applications
17 17 (0.71%) Virtual Team
18 16 (0.66%) Clustering
19 14 (0.58%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 454 (18.85%) Windows
2 292 (12.12%) Linux
3 182 (7.56%) Windows Server
4 91 (3.78%) Windows Server 2019
5 89 (3.69%) Windows 10
6 84 (3.49%) Windows Server 2016
7 48 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 47 (1.95%) Windows Server 2012
9 43 (1.78%) Windows 7
10 25 (1.04%) Unix
11 19 (0.79%) Windows NT
12 18 (0.75%) Apple iOS
12 18 (0.75%) Ubuntu
13 14 (0.58%) Windows XP
14 13 (0.54%) Debian
15 11 (0.46%) Android
16 10 (0.42%) Solaris
17 9 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
18 7 (0.29%) Windows Server 2003
19 6 (0.25%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (15.15%) Agile
2 326 (13.53%) Cybersecurity
3 249 (10.34%) ITIL
4 242 (10.05%) SIEM
5 237 (9.84%) Problem-Solving
6 236 (9.80%) DevOps
7 184 (7.64%) Service Management
8 165 (6.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 159 (6.60%) Project Management
10 128 (5.31%) Stakeholder Management
11 122 (5.06%) Security Operations
12 117 (4.86%) CI/CD
13 116 (4.82%) Project Delivery
14 114 (4.73%) Information Security
15 107 (4.44%) Threat Intelligence
16 101 (4.19%) Incident Response
17 100 (4.15%) Software Engineering
18 99 (4.11%) MITRE ATT&CK
19 91 (3.78%) Network Management
20 88 (3.65%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 173 (7.18%) Python
2 165 (6.85%) PowerShell
3 132 (5.48%) Java
4 82 (3.40%) SQL
5 69 (2.86%) C#
6 62 (2.57%) JavaScript
7 56 (2.32%) C
8 36 (1.49%) Bash
9 35 (1.45%) VBScript
10 26 (1.08%) TypeScript
11 21 (0.87%) Bicep
12 19 (0.79%) C++
13 18 (0.75%) Go
14 17 (0.71%) VB
15 5 (0.21%) MATLAB
15 5 (0.21%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.17%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.12%) Embedded C
17 3 (0.12%) Embedded C++
17 3 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2,409 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 566 (23.50%) SC Cleared
3 183 (7.60%) Degree
4 51 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
5 43 (1.78%) CCNP
6 31 (1.29%) APMP
6 31 (1.29%) CISSP
7 28 (1.16%) ISTQB
8 24 (1.00%) CCNA
8 24 (1.00%) SANS
9 22 (0.91%) CISM
10 21 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 20 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
12 18 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
13 17 (0.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 17 (0.71%) PMP
13 17 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
14 16 (0.66%) AWS Certification
15 15 (0.62%) HND
15 15 (0.62%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (3.53%) NIST
2 66 (2.74%) QA
3 62 (2.57%) PMO
4 52 (2.16%) NIST 800
5 49 (2.03%) SLA
6 34 (1.41%) Government Security Classifications
7 32 (1.33%) NCSC
8 24 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 20 (0.83%) GDPR
10 15 (0.62%) JSP 440
11 13 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
12 11 (0.46%) RMADS
13 7 (0.29%) Accessibility
13 7 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 7 (0.29%) P3O
14 5 (0.21%) Data Quality
15 2 (0.083%) COBIT
15 2 (0.083%) GRC
15 2 (0.083%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 1 (0.042%) SOC 2
System Software
1 214 (8.88%) Active Directory
2 130 (5.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 100 (4.15%) Docker
4 72 (2.99%) VMware NSX
5 60 (2.49%) VMware ESXi
6 50 (2.08%) Hyper-V
7 36 (1.49%) Firmware
8 30 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
8 30 (1.25%) vSphere
9 20 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.21%) BitLocker
10 5 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (0.21%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.12%) iptables
12 2 (0.083%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.083%) UAG
13 1 (0.042%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.042%) KVM
13 1 (0.042%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 119 (4.94%) Terraform
2 113 (4.69%) Ansible
3 111 (4.61%) SCCM
4 109 (4.52%) Kubernetes
5 67 (2.78%) WSUS
6 60 (2.49%) SCOM
7 49 (2.03%) vCenter Server
8 39 (1.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 26 (1.08%) Prometheus
10 25 (1.04%) Grafana
10 25 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
10 25 (1.04%) Puppet
11 23 (0.95%) FortiGate
12 19 (0.79%) EMC NetWorker
12 19 (0.79%) Kibana
12 19 (0.79%) Progress Chef
12 19 (0.79%) Sysprep
13 18 (0.75%) NetBackup
14 16 (0.66%) vRealize
15 13 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 476 (19.76%) Microsoft
2 249 (10.34%) VMware
3 124 (5.15%) Cisco
4 119 (4.94%) Juniper
5 87 (3.61%) Dell
6 83 (3.45%) SAP
7 57 (2.37%) HP
8 54 (2.24%) Palo Alto
9 48 (1.99%) Atlassian
9 48 (1.99%) Red Hat
10 45 (1.87%) Veeam
11 41 (1.70%) Oracle
12 23 (0.95%) F5
13 22 (0.91%) EMC
14 21 (0.87%) Fortinet
15 18 (0.75%) Symantec
16 16 (0.66%) ArcSight
16 16 (0.66%) IBM
17 15 (0.62%) Nokia
18 14 (0.58%) 3PAR